2.23.2015
Bryan Schlake, instructor in rail transportation engineering, was recently quoted in a <em>Trains</em> magazine article about a new system that makes measuring loads faster, more accurate,...

2.19.2015
Stephen Sheetz, chairman of the Sheetz Family Council, and founder of Penn State Altoona's Sheetz Fellows Program, will appear on an episode of WPSU's Higher Education in Focus Thursday, Feb...

2.3.2015
Interested in entering the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair? Don't miss the first of two free workshops by Research Librarian Alessia Zanin-Yost. The workshop, titled "Mak...

1.29.2015
You should meet Aaron Kennedy. You would immediately be taken with his adorable, easy smile and warm aura. And the fact that he uses words like “brilliant” and “mum,” and talks about fish and ...

1.19.2015
Penn State Altoona's Honors Program will welcome Richard Stoller, Coordinator of Academic Advising and International Programs, on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 from 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. in the Edith Da...

1.5.2015
Brian Stennett, 2004 Penn State Altoona graduate and founder of Stennett Insurance Agency, is one of thirty co-authors of "Get in the Game: The World's Leading Entrepreneurs and Professional...

12.16.2014
Penn State Altoona held its fall semester Business and Engineering Student Showcase on Friday, December 12, 2014. Students from various disciplines showcased their work through presentations to the Bl...

12.4.2014
Asher Carr, a junior from West Orange, New Jersey, was announced as the winner of the 2014 fall semester Penn State Altoona Trading Club Competition during an awards ceremony in the Sheetz Center for ...

Dr. Barbara A. Wiens-Tuers

Biography:In addition to being an associate professor of economics at Penn State Altoona, Dr. Wiens-Tuers is an affiliate in the Labor Studies and Employment Relations program at University Park. She received her Ph.D. from University of California-Riverside (UCR) in 1998. Fields of concentration are labor economics, money and banking, and political economy. Publications include articles in the "Labor Studies Journal," "Labor Family News," and "Journal of Socio-Economics," "Journal of Economic Issues," "Review of Social Economy," the "American Journal of Economics and Sociology", and a chapter in a labor text. She has served as chair of the Penn State Altoona Faculty Senate 2005-2006 and is currently serving on the Penn State University Senate, is involved in assessment efforts university-wide, an active member of the Teaching and Learning Consortium at Penn State Altoona, and has served as an officer in several professional organizations.